4.28.2016

my rights to space and safety are just as great as yours
nothing about my actions on the bike put you at risk
but your car driving style? cell phone.. speeding... failure to make complete stops at stop signs
well...
you are putting the world around you at risk

Why do I respond the way that I do to the way that you drive... because I do not want to be bullied.

YOU ARE A BULLY!JUST BECAUSE YOUR CAR IS BIGGER THAN MY BIKE IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU HAVE MORE RIGHT TO THE ROAD THAN I DOIT JUST MEANS THAT YOU ARE A BULLYPUSHING ME AROUND WITH YOUR CAR... BECAUSE IT WOULD KILL ME IF I DID NOT BACK DOWN

Yesterday was a tough day...there were moments where I resembled Robin Williams as Garp in the World According to Garphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVT46mh22iwthe day started with my standard 6 mile urban commutejust blocks from my house I nearly got flattened by a woman more focused on her phone than me in the bike lane to her rightthen blocks later when she caught up to me after my flipping her off she tried to discuss thingsand when I say discuss... she tried to tell me how I was wrong...listen bitch... you have two ears and one mouth... that means listen twice as much as you talkand it is talking that started this conflictyou have noting to say that I need to hear unless it is, "I am sorry... I will be a more responsible driver in the future... you are correct I am a dumb bitch and I should not be on the phone while I drive no only because it is dangerous but because I am boring and have nothing significant going on in my life worth sharing with anyone else"but no... she had to tell me how I should have signaledwell... back it up lady!we need to understand that I do not need to signal... I need to hang on tight and have my fingers near the brakes because you are not the only loser behind the wheel on these roadsthen the way home was more of the same...after rushing home to get in the car to cross town and pick up my boys I encountered more of the sameonly this time... I was in my car... not on my bike... the poor driving habits are now less about threatening my life but denting my caron Rock Creek Parkway a car did an obnoxious U-TurnI let them slidebut then they were driving at a sub 20 mile hour pace in a 25MPH zonesafety is cool... I was not so irkedmaybe this person is not comfortable with the curvy roadmaybe they are just trying to be safe...so I backed offuntil the driver passed a cyclist a little close on a blind turn I then realized... their driving style is not about safetythey are not talking to their toddler in the kid seatTHEY ARE ON THE F-ING PHONEI was livid... what an asshole... I wish I was in the Batmobile so I could launch a Polaris missile their waythen when picking up my son my heart was racing and I had no patience for anyonewhen I got out of my car I made notice of the gravel in the bike lanethere are Bike Lanes on 2000 Block of Park Road because of a traffic calming initiative that I spearheaded when I lived on the blockthere is gravel in the bike lanebut... the white line and about 18 inches into the bike lane there is no gravel...why?

the gravel is missing in the Bike Lane on the 2000 Block of Park Road because so many cars can not keep it in the laneso when I got out of my car with the do I looked down hillthe two cars coming up hill both had their passenger side tires inside the bike lane... cruising close to the parked carsF-ing F-ers!I waved for them to move back into the lane... as they passed I saw that the first person was on the phonereally people... I am pro-Choice... I wish your mother had exercised that choicenot only do I cross this street... but this is a residential neighborhood where my kids and other kids cross this streetkeep up your side of the bargain... keep in the lane... be alert... drive sensibly.. stop being such a F-er!sorry... rainy days and assholes piss me off

4.18.2016

this weekend I watched the CNN documentary series THE SIXTIESthis documentary was FANTASTIC!sure... just like any documentary it possesses as much perspective as it does fact... but wonderful just the sameloved the segment on JFK... great information especially after a conversation earlier this week with a co-worker who was a strong believer in the conspiracy theories... after seeing this... how could we not have our doubts... it is suspect to say the least

then I really found great appreciation to the Civil Rights Segment... WOW! the struggle... the wonderful happenstance for Kennedy to be president and to have Martin Luther King as an activist at the same time... what SYNERGY... then LBJ did some good work after the Kennedy assassination... our country has come a long way... we still have a ways to go... and then lastly the episode that focused on the British invasion really amused me because I had recently had a conversation with a millennial about the Beatles

it was a funny conversation...

in short... as our dogs sniffed each other in that dog sort of way we made small talk

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